ANGDA having trouble getting funding 03/18/2007
Senate refuses to add $5 million request to supplemental; CEO Heinze says grubstake bonds, selling partial interest are options
The Alaska Natural Gas Development Authority is having trouble getting $5 million it needs to move ahead with its Alaska Gas Market System from the Alaska Legislature. The Alaska Senate refused Ma...

Legislature gets AGIA 03/11/2007
First hearing in House OandG March 13; Alaska legislators support concept
The Alaska Legislature is now in possession of Gov. Sarah Palin's Alaska Gasline Inducement Act, with the first hearings scheduled on the bill in the House Special Committee on Oil and Gas March 13. ...

ANGDA goes local 02/04/2007
Alaska Gas Market System looks at 1.25 bcf line to Southcentral, Valdez
Hung out to dry during the Murkowski administration - which focused exclusively on a project by the major Prudhoe Bay owners to take Alaska North Slope gas to the Lower 48 - the Alaska Natural Gas Dev...

Two gas pipeline entities will work together 01/21/2007
Alaska Gasline Port Authority, Alaska Natural Gas Development Authority, sign MOU; governor pleased with cooperation
The Alaska Gasline Port Authority and the Alaska Natural Gas Development Authority have signed a formal agreement to work cooperatively on developing a natural gas pipeline. Officials with the two vot...

Alaska LNG rumor denied 01/14/2007
News report indicates biggest customer may be edging away from Nikiski supply
The biggest customer for liquefied natural gas coming from Nikiski's LNG plant may be looking for other sources of supply after March 2009. That's when the aging plant will need a new export license f...

Izzo: Short-term LNG could help spur line 01/07/2007
A story in the Dec. 31 issue of Petroleum News quoted former Enstar CEO Tony Izzo as telling the Alaska Natural Gas Development Authority board that liquefied natural gas imported into Cook Inlet coul...

LNG into Cook Inlet could kill spur line 12/31/2006
The Alaska Natural Gas Development Authority has had disquieting discussions about Cook Inlet natural gas supplies in the past and at a Dec. 18 board meeting they got more unsettling news about one po...

What role for ANGDA under Palin? 12/24/2006
New governor asks agency to take another look at LNG project in voter initiative, but not pushing that as number one for state
Why hasn't the Alaska Natural Gas Development Authority pursued an LNG project out of Valdez? Apparently it was a question Gov. Sarah Palin asked ANGDA CEO Harold Heinze, board Vice Chairman Scott He...

A 6-month window 12/17/2006
Commission, gas and electric utilities need to be ready for open season
Alaska is well positioned to take gas off in-state under an initial open season for a North Slope natural gas pipeline project. But if for any reason potential in-state users don't take capacity on th...

Palin to examine last-hour job blitz 12/10/2006
Out-going governor names chief of staff Jim Clark to ANGDA board; does not reappoint present chairman Andy Warwick
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will revisit 35 appointments made by her predecessor in the hour before he left office, especially one she called "bizarre." The appointment is that of Murkowski's former chief...

Palin to consider all gas pipeline proposals; preliminary meetings with 12 firms, agencies held; state negotiating team being formed 12/10/2006
The new administration has had initial meetings with those involved in - or wanting to be involved in - an Alaska North Slope gas commercialization project, and came away with information to assimilat...

ANGDA board approves business plan 11/19/2006
Authority's most essential role may be in taking lead on meeting Southcentral Alaska's future energy needs as gas runs out
The Alaska Natural Gas Development Authority board wrapped up work under the administration of Gov. Frank Murkowski by adopting a business plan - a plan that Chief Executive Officer Harold Heinze said...

Cook Inlet gas crunch 10/01/2006
Crisis or deliverability issue: Southcentral Alaska players debate gas future
There may or may not be a crisis in the Cook Inlet natural gas market, but there are uncertainties, especially with so much of Southcentral's energy needs met by natural gas, the Southcentral Alaska E...

Moving on or starting over? 09/24/2006
Members of Commonwealth North, including gas contract study group members, aren't in agreement on what should happen next
Commonwealth North discussed its study report on the proposed gas fiscal contract at a meeting Sept. 8 (see story in Sept. 17 issue of Petroleum News). The discussion didn't cover all of the points i...

Producers: Resource drives project 09/17/2006
ANGDA board concerned about in-state participation in open season for North Slope gas pipeline, growing in-state demand
The Alaska Natural Gas Development Authority asked the Alaska gas project sponsors - BP, ConocoPhillips and ExxonMobil - for information on financing for a North Slope natural gas pipeline to Lower 48...

ANGDA: Spur line could be first or last 09/10/2006
Northern Economics tells Alaska Natural Gas Development Authority board early build could translate into early gas to area
A spur line to Southcentral Alaska could be built prior to a main line from the North Slope, or starting in the last year of construction of the main line. That was the conclusion Northern Economics...

ANGDA looks at Alaska NGL needs 07/30/2006
Heinze stresses importance of assuring access to NGLs in Alaska; study looks at spur line terminal options for NGL processing
It's crucial that the State of Alaska protects its ability to extract NGLs in state from a North Slope gas line. That was a key message from the Alaska Natural Gas Development Authority's board meetin...

Menge signs spur line right-of-way 07/30/2006
The Alaska Department of Natural Resources said July 27 that Commissioner Michael Menge has signed the conditional right-of-way lease for the Alaska Natural Gas Development Authority's proposed gas sp...

Conditional ROW for spur line approved 07/23/2006
ANGDA gets right of way for Glennallen to Palmer line; 24-inch Southcentral line would be built before North Slope mainline
On July 19 the Joint Pipeline Office announced that Michael Menge, commissioner of the Alaska Department of Natural Resources, had signed a final decision granting the Alaska Natural Gas Development A...

ANGDA proposes in-state changes 07/16/2006
CEO Harold Heinze: Alaska Natural Gas Development Authority premised on having big project from which to build spur
Alaska Natural Gas Development Authority plans are premised on having the big North Slope gas pipeline project go forward, and "if that requires the contract we need to help make that happen," Harold...

The $5.5B hurdle 07/02/2006
In-state utilities face open-season commitment more than 2 times assets
Under the terms of the fiscal gas pipeline contract negotiated by Gov. Frank Murkowski's administration with North Slope producers BP, ConocoPhillips and ExxonMobil, Alaska's in-state utilities will f...

Spur line gets ACMP okay from DNR 05/21/2006
Final consistency determination issued; Alaska Natural Gas Development Authority still waiting for conditional right of way
Alaska's Office of Project Management and Permitting has found the Alaska Natural Gas Development Authority's Glennallen to Palmer gas spur line project to be consistent with the Alaska Coastal Manage...

ANGDA picks Northern Economics to write plan for link to ANS gas line 05/07/2006
The Alaska Natural Gas Development Authority said May 3 it has selected Northern Economics Inc. to write the enterprise business plan for its project to link North Slope natural gas to Southcentral Al...

Conditional ROW for spur expected soon 05/07/2006
Alaska Natural Gas Development Authority working on business plan, outreach to entities that might want North Slope gas
The Alaska Natural Gas Development Authority has participated in seven Department of Natural Resources public hearings on its proposed spur line right of way from Glennallen to Palmer, Chief Executive...

ANGDA issues RFP for business plan 04/09/2006
The Alaska Natural Gas Development Authority has issued an RFP for the development of a business plan for an authority-proposed spur line to deliver North Slope natural gas to Southcentral Alaska. Pro...